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Food safety

A feed & food safety management system will change your company’s approach from retroactive quality testing to a preventive way of thinking (ISO 22000, HACCP).

Traceability

A safe food product is the result of all the processes and handling activities carried out through the entire food chain.

Corporate responsibility

By managing your environmental, social and economic impacts and your stakeholder relationships more effectively, you can build a competitive edge in attracting customers and investors and stimulate long-term profitability.

Management systems

With a management system you demonstrate predictability of your internal operations and ability to meet requirements from your customers and society at large.

Sustainable fishing

Fish stock overexploitation has become a major issue, and consumers are increasingly interested in well managed and sustainable fisheries.

Regulatory assessment

The global food market is heavily regulated, and both the manufacturer’s and the consumer’s national legislation needs to be complied with. Regulatory assessment is a fundamental tool to assure the effectiveness of the “regulatory compliance system” in place.

Food product certification

A product certification is not only a signal to consumers that your product is up to a certain standard – it improves the branding of the product and facilitates the marketing.

A new risk reality within food and beverages

As the food and beverage sector becomes ever more competitive and heavily scrutinised, companies are faced with new challenges.

Delivering better service to farmers

With GBP 2 billion in payments annually to 120,000 farmers and traders in the UK running through the Rural Payment Agency (RPA), the Agency relies on an efficient and secure IT infrastructure and electronic business applications. The introduction of the Single Farm Payment Scheme in 2005 added new challenges to the development of the IT system. RPA Security Officer Ian Pittock has particularly found the transformation to be full of bumps and pitfalls.

Climate change

Climate change is currently one of the most pressing environmental issues facing the international community, the business world, and individual citizens. Responding to the challenge demands a global effort and immediate action.

Risk management

The purpose of risk management is not to eliminate risk, but to understand it so that you can take advantage of the upside and minimize the downside. Learn about risk management.

2008-05-07New tool with speedy predictions of how heavy weather will affect risers, mooring and umbilicals

OTC, Houston, USA: In order for offshore operations to cope with more extreme weather conditions, DNV has developed the new Riser Production Line software suite. Its automated and efficient calculations dramatically reduces the analysis time of how heavy weather and operating conditions will strain installations such as risers, moorings and umbilicals.